Comments by moretoit

More important than any thing else you can do to achieve your goals is to be on the level. Welcome challenges. Welcome debate, vigorous, honest, passionate, respectful debate. Welcome those who drive you crazy. If you stop growing now, you surrender most everything you tried to gain.

What we do know is this: depression doesn’t eme rge from exposure to alcohol in the knuckles. Brain tissue is what dies from alcohol poisoning. The brain is the best sourc of which we know so far as the most likely place to find cognition and emotion. Likely, secrets to the mysteries of errant thought patterns and emotional illnesses will be found within that structure consisting of 100 billion neurons. Emotions and thoughts are not formed in one’s knees. We have not even scratched the surface to begin to understand how the human brain works.

Aspirin kills. I do hope we can all begin to inform others of this and its other dangers. Alcohol, a chemical solvent and degreaser,. Used by many millions as a beverage, it is the most deadly drug consumed in the world and is often abused in socially accepted ways. The number of auto-related murders since Prohibition ended is the greatest tragedy in American history.

We all need to renew our commitment to banning its usage as a social lubricant.

Thank you Dr. Beggin for all you do and have done to return some sanity to the farce that is called psychiatry. Where can I buy your books and how much are they in bulk? I would like to order a large quantity and distribute them in key locations.

Working with someone takes the “someone’s” capacity to do so for granted. Even if someone desires to work to improve her mood and circumstances, she may not be capable. Medicine may bring the person back from the edge so that she is able to do the work necessary to get healthier.

Ms. Minkowitz, now covered by the ADA, those with disabilities are afforded legal protection once denied to us. In your opinion, do these special laws entitle us to be free of public hate speech; those kinds of statements directed specifically at people who are medically defined as having certain mental illnesses?